H. Winder Webb

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 12 dated events in the chronology →

1. February 1894 H. Winder Webb and Thomas D. Tinnin start a stave mill near Hillsborough H. Winder Webb and Thomas D. Tinnin announced that they would run a stave mill near the town and advertised for 1,000 cords of white oak.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 17, 1894, p. 3
2. May 4, 1896 Hillsborough elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and an all-Democratic town board Hillsborough voters elected Democrat Joseph A. Harris mayor over Republican Nathan W. Brown, 82 to 52, with a Democratic board of commissioners. The new registration, ordered after the old book was lost, listed 72 white and 71 Black voters, and about 25 Black men voted the Democratic ticket. People: N. W. Brown, Clarence Dupre Jones, Frank Nash, H. Winder Webb, Dudley M. LawsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 9, 1896, p. 3
3. May 15, 1896 Hillsborough's commissioners take up revised town ordinances and order them printed and posted The Hillsborough board went through a revision of the town ordinances section by section and ordered them printed and posted. The mayor named standing committees for public property, streets, finance, cemeteries, and the pump, clock and scales. People: Joseph A. Harris, Frank Nash, Clarence Dupre Jones, H. Winder Webb, Dudley M. LawsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 23, 1896, p. 3
4. November 30, 1896 Hillsborough's town board orders the Town Commons lots sold By order of the town board, its committee (including D. M. Laws and H. Winder Webb) advertised about forty numbered lots in the Town Commons for sale at auction at the court house on March 8, 1897, on credit, with the town guaranteeing title. The town also gave notice that it would ask the legislature to amend its charter. People: H. Winder Webb, Dudley M. LawsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 10, 1896, p. 3
5. August 1900 The Hillsboro Milling Company is chartered The Hillsboro Milling and Manufacturing Company raised its cash and organized in early August 1900, with Dr. C. D. Jones as president, Dr. J. S. Spurgeon as vice president and H. W. Webb as secretary and treasurer, and the state granted its charter, with $10,000 in capital stock, about August 16. It planned a roller mill and a shuttle-block factory in the Webbs' brick building east of the courthouse. By early 1901 it had put in a corn mill and was buying wheat. People: H. Winder WebbSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Union Republican, December 13, 1900, p. 4 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, January 25, 1901, p. 1; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 14, 1901, p. 3; DigitalNC newspaper, April 14, 1909, p. 6; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 9, 1900, p. 3; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 23, 1900, p. 3
6. June 1903 Hillsboro Township magistrates elect H. Winder Webb, James A. Cheek and Eugene A. Hughes road commissioners The board of magistrates of Hillsboro Township elected H. Winder Webb, James A. Cheek and Eugene A. Hughes as the township's board of road commissioners. The magistrates re-elected them for two years in April 1905, and in 1907 chose Webb, N. W. Brown and Paul C. Collins. People: James A. CheekSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 11, 1903, p. 3
7. July 18, 1904 H. W. and J. C. Webb take over the James Webb Jr. & Bro. store H. Winder Webb and J. Cheshire Webb bought the stock, trade and good will of James Webb Jr. & Bro. from the estates of its late partners and put up their own sign at the old stand on Churton Street. The old firm was dissolved except for collecting its debts, which John Cox Webb took in hand. People: James Webb Jr., H. Winder WebbSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 21, 1904, p. 3
8. by June 15, 1905 Hillsborough Township brings in a rock crusher to macadamize the depot road The Hillsborough Township road commissioners set up a rock crusher and roller in D. C. Parks's vacant lot west of the court house to build a macadam road from Churton and King streets to the railroad station, with a road builder from Charlotte in charge and an engineer hired for the survey. People: H. Winder Webb, James A. CheekSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 15, 1905, p. 3
9. July 18 to October 31, 1905 Hillsborough macadamizes King Street west of Churton Work on a macadam road on King Street began on July 18 with the digging up of the old paving stones near S. E. Cole's store, after a survey by a Mr. Spoon of Burlington, and the Good Roads Machinery Company set up a rock crusher in early August. When superintendent Stewart of Charlotte left on October 31, nearly two blocks of King Street from Churton to Hazel had been macadamized, and the road commission of H. Winder Webb, James A. Cheek and E. A. Hughes hoped to carry the road to the depot the next summer. People: H. Winder Webb, James A. CheekSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 2, 1905, p. 3
10. May 1912 The Orange Trust Company is organized at Hillsborough A Hillsborough real estate and insurance firm, the Hillsboro Real Estate and Improvement Company, took the new name Orange Trust Company, with H. W. Webb as president. It planned to buy and sell land, lend money and sell insurance, with $11,000 in paid-in stock. People: H. Winder WebbSearch the index · DigitalNC: Durham Daily Sun, May 7, 1912, p. 1 · Also: Durham Daily Sun, May 10, 1912, p. 2
11. September 19, 1918 Orange County organizes for the United War Work drive A court house meeting on September 19, 1918, elected N. W. Brown county chairman for the United War Work drive. The county raised $7,485; Carrboro gave $1,240 on a $500 quota, and Hillsborough Township, under Elizabeth Cornelius, gave $2,300. People: R. H. Claytor, N. W. Brown, H. Winder Webb, H. S. BradshawSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 72
12. April 13, 1932 J. Cheshire Webb, president of the Eno Cotton Mills, dies in Hillsboro Webb, 52, a University man of 1901 who had run the James Webb, Jr., & Bro. store with his uncle H. Winder Webb and had headed the Eno Cotton Mills for eleven years, died early Wednesday of acute uremia, having worked at his mill office the day before. A junior warden of St. Matthew's, he had his funeral there on April 14, and his death dissolved the H. W. & J. C. Webb partnership. People: J. Cheshire Webb, H. Winder WebbThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 15, 1932, p. 5